evaporiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/

名詞

evaporite (countable and uncountable, plural evaporites)

1. The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129:

     Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.

派生語

• endoevaporite
• evaporitic

アナグラム

• operative